Re: Activations harrasment after frequent hard drive changes
- From: pop <poppy@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:38:32 -0500
Ron Martell wrote:
Pop <poppy123@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From this excellent information source about activation:
http://aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm
Excerpt:
What about a swappable hard drive bay?
Provided the swappable hard drive bay is for secondary disks (used for data), and the boot disk with Windows is still present, the swappable disks do not enter into the WPA calculation.
Excerpt_off:
This past year of scanning and or recovering infected or aging hard drives of kids, grandkids, and other friends and neighbors, Windows XP-home oem is about to do in this retired old techie.
I am using a swap tray for mounting their hard drive as a secondary IDE slave. Most of the time it holds a large disk for my Drive Image Backups of various partitions. For servicing the guest hard drive, the backup drive is swapped out.
It doesn't take too many swap outs across a month or two and Windows completely loses it's sense of humor. I find myself in the middle of service activities and I am forced to reactivate.
Based on my limited understanding of WPA, I thought that I would be safe in performing those IDE drive swaps. What am I missing?
Pop
The hard drive data, even if it was the boot drive that was changed,
is not enough of a change by itself to initiate a need to reactivate.
There would have to be changes in several other of the monitored items
as well.
Are you changing any other hardware in your computer?
Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
I use the PC when necessary to swap out RAM to check out if a DIMM is okay, then change it back. I have three PC's in house, two are XP and one is Windows 2000 PRO. All are in the generation of FSB 333 to 550.
The hard drive changes are common. I use my XP home machine to scan other hard drives looking for spyware / demons, etc. On one occasion, I inserted a video card to check it out, then went back to the MB built in adapter. I am not a game player, and have very little music. Digital camera is my big space user.
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